NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT — While everyone was able to safely escape a fire Saturday at Da Legna restaurant in New Haven, something special was left behind in the rubble. To those watching the flames rip through the State Street apartments, above the restaurant, it was obvious there would be some major damage. However, once the [...]

A Wisconsin family’s dog was reportedly rescued on Tuesday by firefighters who used artificial respiration to save the yellow Labrador after it had become trapped during a house fire. Firefighters responding to a fire on the second floor of a home at South Sixth Avenue and Callon Street in Wausau found the dog — 7-year-old [...]

Check out this video of New York City Firefighters rescuing a dog that fell from the pier at the South Street Seaport into the East River. Thankfully, firefighters were already there for fireworks duty.

A Chicago firefighter is The Dog Files’ latest hero after she brought not one, but two dogs back to life using CPR. Chicago Fire Dept. firefighter Tammy Rodriguez responded to a fire on the back porch of a home Friday afternoon and pulled two dogs from the blaze — an adult dog and a puppy, [...]

On Monday afternoon, firefighters responding to an apartment fire in the Bronx, New York, got quite a surprise when they broke into the apartment and found 14 pit bulls that had been injured by smoke and fire. After extinguishing the blaze, firefighters, as well as an official from the nonprofit group Animal Care and Control [...]

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